Ms Niamh Ní Bhriain:

This point has been made over and over again about the Security Council. It does not impose a veto on Ireland specifically. It mandates peacekeeping missions on the basis of the information that it has before it. Once the mandate is given, Ireland deploys on those missions. The Deputy said the Security Council was defunct, but at the moment, there are 11 active peacekeeping missions around the world. Ireland can participate in any and all of those missions, without any impediment, as we wish. We can continue to participate in peacekeeping with a UN mandate if we wish. This is not something that has fallen apart entirely and those mandates are regularly renewed, as was laid out clearly by Mr. Kelly.

On the idea that the world is changing, we are sitting here talking about defence readiness for 2030. Europe is heading into war. We are sitting here talking about that and the Deputy's conclusion is that that is where we would need to be, that the Security Council is not working as it should, so we should-----